You are a judge in a children€™s kite-flying contest, and two children will win prizes for the kites that pull most strongly and least strongly on their strings. To measure string tensions, you borrow a weight hanger, some slotted weights, and a protractor from your physics teacher, and use the following protocol, illustrated in Figure P5.20: Wait for a child to get her kite well controlled, hook the hanger onto the kite string about 30 cm from her hand, pile on weight until that section of string is horizontal, record the mass required, and record the angle between the horizontal and the string running up to the kite.
(a) Explain how this method works. As you construct your explanation, imagine that the children€™s parents ask you about your method, that they might make false assumptions about your ability without concrete evidence, and that your explanation is an opportunity to give them confidence in your evaluation technique.
(b) Find the string tension if the mass is 132 g and the angle of the kite string is 46.3°.

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1n 5,00 m 召 Figure P9.20